Part of Creative Commons Educator Certification Assignment

1. What is Creative
Commons?
Presentation for Educators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/1-1-the-story-of-creative-commons/
Creative Commons began in response to an outdated copyright legal system
and is recognized by educators as a set of legal tools for Open Education
initiatives, but it’s much more than that.

2. Timeline
World Wide Web (WWW) and
Browsers!
1993 - 1996
Copyright Term Extension Act
(CTEA)
1998
Creative Commons (CC) is founded
by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson,
and Eric Eldred
2001
Supreme Course Upholds CTEA in
Eldred v. Ashcroft
2003
Creative Commons released its
strategy for the upcoming five
years, which will focus more on
three core of goals including
advocacy, infrastructure innovation,
and capacity building.
2020
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft

3. CTEA and Case Precedent
• Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA)
• Life of Author + 70 Years
• 95 Years added to Corporate Authorship from Date of
Publication
• Eldred vs Ashcrosft
• Supreme Court 2003
• Upholds CTEA
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CC0 1.0
Public Domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft

4. What is copyright?
“Copyright is an area in Law that regulates the way some products of
human creativity are used.”
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Public Domain
Public Domain
CC BY-SA 3.0
https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/1-1-the-story-of-creative-commons/

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CC BY-SA 3.0
The Internet
and the Failure of Sharing!
Public Domain
GNU Lesser General Public
License
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
“Creative Commons was created to help address the tension
between creator’s ability to share digital works globally and
copyright regulation.”
https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/1-1-the-story-of-creative-commons/

6. A Shared Culture
with Creative Commons!
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https://vimeo.com/74801074
Creators and Corporate Authors
1. Get credit for their work
2. Specify how they want to share their work
a) Specify whether they allow mixing
3. Specify whether they allow derivatives of their work
4. Specify whether their work is to be used commercially
or not
”It’s not about content, it’s about communities”

7. Baseline Rights of CC Licenses
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Attribution
Share
Alike
Non-
Commercial
No
Derivative
Works
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license

8. Advocacy
Innovation
Capacity Building
The Creative Commons Organization
Knowledge and Culture in the Public Interest
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9. Creative Commons
Movement
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CC Global Network (CCGN)
The CC Global Network has over 700 members, and over 45 Chapters around
the world
CC’s Network Platforms are open to everyone and include the Open Education
Platform, a Copyright Platform, and an Open GLAM Platform.
Open Innovation in the corporate world
Open Data (see the Open Data Commons)
Crowdsourcing
Open Access movement, which aims to make research widely available
Open Science movement, and the growing movement around
Open Educational Resources https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/1-2-creative-commons-today/

10. Get Involved!
CC Global Network
See if there is a Chapter in your country
Chapters
or contact
network-support@creativecommons.org
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https://certificates.creativecommons.org/cccertedu/chapter/1-2-creative-commons-today/

11. Summary
As you can see, Creative Commons (CC) started off as way for
copyright to adapt to worldwide sharing to a global movement where a
shared culture and community is sustainable. For educators, Creative
Commons (CC) Licensing coupled with Open Pedagogy and Open
Educational Resources will lead the way to the continued improvement
of our educational system and the bring the world of education closer
together!
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12. Thank you
John Acosta, Professor
John.Acosta@kbcc.cuny.edu
What is Creative Commons? by John Acosta is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License.